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- I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host at the door. Falling from…
- Nothing on earth is more gladdening than knowing we must roll up our sleeves and move back the boundaries of the humanly possible once more.
- Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it…
- Take a quick dip, relax with a schnapps and a sandwich, stretch out, have a smoke, take a nap or just rest, and then sit…
- To crank myself up I stood on a jack and ran myself up. I tightened myself like a bolt. I inserted myself in a vise-clamp…
- When I was six or seven years old, growing up in Pittsburgh, I used to take a precious penny of my own and hide it…
- The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can…
- We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the people,…
- We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join by…
- All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain.
- Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter the fingertips on the…
- Noticing and remembering everything would trap bright scenes to light and fill the blank and darkening past which was already piling up behind me. The…
- I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will…
- She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
- It's about waking up. A child wakes up over and over again, and notices that she's living. She dreams along, loving the exuberant life of…
- I wake up thinking: What am I reading? What will I read next? I'm terrified that I'll run out, that I will read through all…
- The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book…
- How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we…
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